Romanticism history: Art-Essay

Essay- Contemporary Artist

Victoria Horkan

This contemporary artist is a feminine artist, which she offers bold, vibrant and expressive, and all her paintings are gorgeous bursts of colours that will take you through all the canvas. The inspiration will be taking from the natural world of creatures found in the sea and in the sky, such as insects and birds. The viewer will be very involved when looking at this type of art that this artist creates and will immediately feel life and energy that will pop out from the artwork in what the artist describe her work as "raw, organic colour palettes depicting elements of movements."

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All her work focuses on the simplicity of form presented in a modern style, a style in which she does layers of thick plaster together with undiluted oil paints, in order to have an interesting textured surfaces. She also blends beautiful colours together into strokes that reflects the repetitive forms of the object being painted. Her work also draws attention to those very delicate details and gives glorious details to the fragile creatures such as butterflies.

She also combined scale and perspective, making large things which normally will be small and focus on colour, gesture and mark making. Bright and pure colours are set in sharp contrast; light and dark, warm and cold combined with loose, distinct brushstrokes were strongly used by the impressionists’ artists. These marks creates a sense of movement energetic, flickering quality that is particularly evident in her underwater scenes. She is fascinated by sitting down in a studio and tries to capture the dancer’s moves by sketching.

She is aware that a colour can be recognised by the mood, that it will creates many emotions. Kandinsky was the artist that he explored the connections between music and art, believing that musical and visual expression could be used to complement each other. He realised that these two subjects are very well connected and claimed that the colour is a power that influences the soul, and in generally it is the most important and powerful part for every artist, that he/she can experiment and explore different things to have good and effective results.
Such theories seem to apply to Horkan’s work. She is not looking to produce an existing work that impose the feelings and emotions on the viewer. She decided to leave the viewer to create his/ her own feelings emotions and the way how they see the painting or artwork, and she will hope that she will bring joyful and happy emotions even when the viewer have a sad mood, by the different colours in the painting that automatically will change in different moods.
Her influences of her work was from the Impressionism period were the impressionist artists used small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open compositions , emphasis on accurate parts of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

Materials used are the plaster, canvas and oils with these materials, the artist has produce a very well amount of works, which are very beautiful and amazing works.